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| Details | | Series: | Bfi Film Classics |
| Size | | Length: | 73 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
Thomson's short study of [The Big Sleep] is clever, eccentric, meandering, and self-indulgent--more on the background than on the picture.
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Meyers
Thomson says The Big Sleep 'abandons story and genre as easily as one of its girls stepping out of her clothes.' He's projecting a little here, since the women in the movie only step out of their reserve, coming on to Bogart as if he were the Adonis he doggedly is not. But then Thomson is on his way to making what seems to me his strangest claim. Because it abandons story The Big Sleep 'is a movie about being a movie, about movie-ness. . . . It's a picture about its own process, the aim of making fun. . . . It is a dream about dreaming--maybe the best.' It's hard to see why it couldn't be about being a movie and be a great thriller, or be a great thriller because its was also about being a movie. But Thomson thinks The Big Sleep sets us on the road to Tarantino.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
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